The past week has seen two examples of the horrifying atrocities committed against Afghan women with news that a 22 year-old Afghan woman was strangled by her husband for giving birth to a girl instead of a boy, and Afghan immigrants in Canada were convicted of murdering three teens and a former wife because they had become too westernized.
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Last night's State of the Union address contained a few glaring inaccuracies, and even when the president's facts and figures were accurate, he often left out the rest of the story.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
On the eve of Pope Benedict XVI’s departure for the Holy Land, the Taliban issued a warning telling him to stop alleged attempts to convert Muslims in Afghanistan in order to prevent “serious consequences.”
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